I always get people telling me to look up at the light to sneeze, which I know is a phenomenon but I never hear anyone talk about mint.
Something about fresh air just tickles my nose and makes me sneeze. It’s especially great when I have a mouthful of minty toothpaste.
Or perhaps I’m just allergic to going outside.
I have to sneeze too when I eat mints.
I feel validated
During cold weather people are more likely to burn things in chimneys and etc.
The effect is subtle but extremely widespread. I also end up sneezing in cold air purely because that’s when people start burning stuff!
That wouldn’t explain the mint for me though.
I can’t say for certain, but I doubt particulates are the issue. Or I would be sneezing every time I walk close to a road.
Something about fresh air just tickles my nose
Maybe this has happened to me? It is less obvious than the sun sneezing thing. I mean I see the sun, sneeze exactly twice. Every time. But fresh air tickles? I guess I thought it was a normal time to sneeze and not a similar cross-sensory phenomenon.
Mints have not ever done this to me. But I do enjoy vaporub.
Or perhaps I’m just allergic to going outside.
Welcome to my life
I got tested and am allergic to everything outside down to grass :D
I have the mint thing. Also happens with dark chocolate/other bitter foods
This. A very dark chocolate or a peppermint/candy cane will get me. I also do the sun thing.
Bitter foods, huh. I don’t have that.
Do you also have the thing with cold/fresh air?
Haven’t noticed it with cold air before
I sneeze after breakfast, repeatedly. Apparently that is called the sniation reflex.
I already knew about the “photic sneeze reflex”, and I know someone who sneezes exactly 2 times when temperature changes (and very loudly), but not from mint afaik.
I know someone who sneezes exactly 3 times after they start chewing a piece of gum.
Not from mint but I started to sneeze when smelling coffee for a while now